TOPIC: Drug Detection Inspections

Greetings,
I just found and purchased a drug detection kit to do inspections with, is there anyone who would like to give any advise on how to protect myself with a contract?  Do I need to have special provisions?  What about any other information that might be helpful?  I am grateful for any help I receive!

Thomas, I have no special provisions in my agreement which may be right or wrong I am not sure. My attorney did not seem to be bothered by it. The agent has more of a problem with the disclosure statement if anything has been detected. I have done 2 to date in Philadelphia and both were neg.

Russ Spriggs @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is definitely the guy to talk to regarding this. He's the chapter president of InterNACHI is Idaho and runs into meth houses all the time. He calls me sometimes in a funny dazed mode (must have been what it was like in the 60's)

Russ Spriggs @ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. is definitely the guy to talk to regarding this. He's the chapter president of InterNACHI is Idaho and runs into meth houses all the time. He calls me sometimes in a funny dazed mode (must have been what it was like in the 60's)

Hehe, as Dominic would write!
Guys, I can only tell you what I've been preaching on the NACHI board for years (go look):
I would trust a DIY pregnancy test kit before a DIY Meth test.
Nobody's gonna haul you into court for a preg pee test, but you'd better have a LAB making the final decision on Structural Narcotics.
You ARE a Generalist, yes?
A drug swab kit may give you an indication of whether to have a lab test or not, but I would not be the one to have the final say, only to have a seller or agent have me buying the house because I "blew the deal".
Nor do I want the responsibility of saying it is "clean" and have a family poisoned after purchase.
If you've never been "methed up" from an inspection, you have no idea of the passion I put into this when I warn you.
I've been methed about 8 times, I guess.

Call Michael Cooper, SNDS, 406.250.3970.  Learn to be Lab-Certified to take samples to provide to the lab.
You wouldn't be the final word on MOLD, would you?

I can attest to his being methed up from a house he had no idea had meth in it. It usually involves phone calls asking how to start up Home Inspector Pro or add pictures (after doing a few hundreds inspections with the program). It's obviously dangerous stuff and you have to protect yourself when you know what's going on.

What is a drug detection test and how does work?